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Esteemed Dutch primatologist Hans de Waal explores the various social traits that humans share with two primate species closely related to humans: not only the often violent, male-dominated chimpanzees, but a lesser-known species--the gentle, female-dominated, highly sexualized bonobos. De Waal torpedoes the popular belief that only the more negative aspects of the human personality can be attributed to our ape ancestors, and provides numerous anecdotes from and documented research into both human and primate behavior demonstrating that humans and apes have cooperation, compassion, and altruism in common as well as the more "brutish" traits of cruelty and violence toward others.
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"[D]e Waal offers vivid, often delightful stories of politics, sex, violence and kindness in the ape communities he has studied....Reader might be surprised at how much these apes and their stories resonate with their own lives." (starred review) - (Publishers Weekly, 8/8/05)
"[E]mpathy and compassion are...part of our primal heritage, de Waal argues, offering plentiful examples--both anecdotal and rigorous--from his studies to support his point....Fascinating and enlightening." (starred review) - (Kirkus, 8/15/05)
"In this fascinating book, de Waal suggests that...[chimps and bonobos] represent sides of our own nature....[An] important and illuminating book." - Bill Harry (New York Times Book Review, 10/9/05)
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